This article traces the reception of blood group research in Portuguese physical anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century and analyses its presence as ‘sero-anthropology’ within the context of the disciplinary and political dynamics of colonial and metropolitan Portugal and against the background of international developments on blood group research. It argues that Portugal, hitherto largely understudied in relation to the broader international picture, was in tune with these developments. The article argues further that Portuguese physical anthropology, particularly research based at the University of Porto, was deeply ingrained with the fear of ‘contamination’ of the ‘race’ by the colonialized ‘other’ and sought to differentiate the Portuguese from the peoples of Africa and the East where Portugal possessed colonies, while it also sought to place the Portuguese within the scale of racial hierarchies of ‘whites’ in Europe. The article elaborates on a number of central and marginal figures within Portuguese anthropology to illustrate these claims and argues that the discipline was in tune with wider European developments in the field but with specific colonialist and racialist inflections, some of which are still felt in Portuguese culture today.

本文追溯了 20 世纪上半叶葡萄牙体质人类学对血型研究的接受情况，并在葡萄牙殖民和大都市的学科和政治动态背景下，分析其作为“血清人类学”的存在。血型研究的国际发展。它认为，迄今为止，在更广泛的国际形势方面，葡萄牙在很大程度上没有得到充分研究，但与这些事态发展保持一致。这篇文章进一步指出，葡萄牙体质人类学，尤其是波尔图大学的研究，深深地担心“种族”被殖民化的“其他人”“污染”，并试图将葡萄牙人与非洲人民区分开来。和葡萄牙拥有殖民地的东部，同时它还试图将葡萄牙人置于欧洲“白人”种族等级的范围内。这篇文章详细阐述了葡萄牙人类学中的一些核心和边缘人物来说明这些主张，并认为该学科与该领域更广泛的欧洲发展相一致，但具有特定的殖民主义和种族主义倾向，其中一些在葡萄牙文化中仍然存在今天。